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August 19, 1987

WHITEHORSE, YUKON TERRITORY — FIGHT FOR FOOD SUPPLY. ''A lot of time the caribou is our only source of food. If the caribou get displaced we are out of luck.'' That's Indian Chief Lincoln Tritt talking from the Arctic Village, Alaska's most northerly native community. His village and Indians from Canada's Old Crow village in the Yukon are joining forces to save a caribou calving ground from oil and gas exploration. The U.S. Interior Department wants Congress to approve drilling on 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the main calving ground for the porcupine herd, which migrates north in the spring. There are 180,000 in the herd.